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?Politicians who support gay marriage are not Catholic, says cardinal?

By ADF Alliance Alert

The Catholic Review: "Public officials who openly support same-sex marriage cannot consider themselves to be Catholic, said an Italian cardinal. 'It?s impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognizes same-sex marriage as a right,' said Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna . . . Cardinal Caffarra, who holds a number of positions in the Roman Curia including as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Vatican?s highest tribunal, known as the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, wrote that the consequences of same-sex marriage would be 'devastating.' 'One of the pillars of our legal order ? marriage as a public good ? would crumble,' he wrote."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).